Cookie Lommel
{{Short description|American author and activist}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Cookie Lommel
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1970}}
| birth_place = Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
| occupation = {{flatlist|
- Writer
- biographer
- film producer
- activist
}}
| spouse = {{marriage|Ulli Lommel|1988|2004|reason=divorce}}
}}
Cookie Lommel (born 1970) is an American author, biographer, film producer, and activist.
Early life
Cookie Lommel was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She began her career in the entertainment industry in 1981.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/cashbox55unse_14|title=Cash Box|date=30 November 1991|publisher=Cash Box Pub. Co.|via=Internet Archive}} Early on she worked as a journalist for Cashbox magazine and Radio & Records magazine.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ft6SOIW0l0C&pg=PA4|title=Robert Church|first=Cookie|last=Lommel|date=13 October 1995|publisher=Holloway House Publishing|via=Google Books|isbn=9780870677892}} She has also worked as an entertainment industry reporter at CNN{{cite web|url=https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/archives/a-jewish-connection---in-her-soul-and-in/article_fcaa9c58-da7a-5e98-9e23-eee8e1d5a735.html|title=A Jewish connection - in her soul and in her jobs|first=CYNTHIA DETTELBACH|last=Editor|date=17 September 2004 |publisher=}} and as entertainment editor at Teen Magazine.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4laORCuvf9UC&pg=PA104|title=Russell Simmons|first1=Cookie|last1=Lommel|first2=Chuck|last2=D|date=13 October 2018|publisher=Infobase Publishing|via=Google Books|isbn=9781438103518}}
Activism
In 2003, she was named the executive director of the Jewish Labor Committee's Western region. Prior to this, in 1992 Lommel founded Operation Unity,{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9511/operation_unity/|title=CNN - Teen-agers find new direction - Nov. 10, 1995|website=www.cnn.com}} a non-profit organization that funded the travel of inner city minority students to live on an Israeli Kibbutz.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-mar-14-ca-tugend14-story.html|title=One-woman bridge|first=Tom|last=Tugend|date=14 March 2004|publisher=|via=LA Times}}
Author
Cookie Lommel authored the 2001{{cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20001211/25180-african-american-children-s-books.html|title=African-American Children's Books|publisher=}} book The History of Rap Music,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kbE9uQLacRcC&pg=PA21|title=Sean Combs|first=Dale Evva|last=Gelfand|date=13 October 2018|publisher=Infobase Publishing|via=Google Books|isbn=9781438103525}} and Black Filmmakers in 2002.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UZx2AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT361|title=Encyclopedia of African American Society|first=Gerald D.|last=Jaynes|date=1 February 2005|publisher=SAGE Publications|via=Google Books|isbn=9781452265414}} She is also the author of unauthorized biographies for Russell Simmons,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0zPg7Cidoy0C&pg=PP47|title=The Hip-Hop Scene: The Stars, the Fans, the Music|first1=Ann Graham|last1=Gaines|first2=Reggie|last2=Majors|date=1 July 2009|publisher=Enslow Publishing, LLC|via=Google Books|isbn=9780766033962}} Arnold Schwarzenegger,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A_1Oalp0qQEC&pg=PA162|title=Proč jsou úspěšní lidé úspěšní|first=Rainer|last=Zitelmann|date=13 October 2018|publisher=Grada Publishing a.s.|via=Google Books|isbn=9788024741871}} James Oglethorpe,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8rA1kYgFx-wC&pg=PA43|title=Heroes & Helpers Adventure Diaries-#6 Hannah, the Humanitarian Aid Worker!|first=Carole|last=Marsh|date=1 November 2003|publisher=Gallopade International|via=Google Books|isbn=9780635011534}} Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., Arthur Miller, Robert Church,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9ZMt670GeGoC&pg=PA168|title=Fight On!: Mary Church Terrell's Battle for Integration|first1=Dennis B.|last1=Fradin|first2=Judith Bloom|last2=Fradin|date=13 October 2018|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|via=Google Books|isbn=978-0618133499}} Madame C.J. Walker,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A5Y5Kk12xkkC&pg=PA103|title=Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur and Millionaire|first=Darlene R.|last=Stille|date=13 October 2018|publisher=Capstone|via=Google Books|isbn=9780756518837}} Michelle Pfeiffer,{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHrEAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT23 |title = Wie würde Johnny Depp präsentieren?: Was Sie von Schauspielern für Ihren Vortrag lernen können|isbn = 9783864146237|last1 = Lüder|first1 = Peter|date = 2014-02-14| publisher=Redline Wirtschaft }} and Mary Church Terrell.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LBXl8aueRisC&pg=PA126|title=Study Guide for Let Nobody Turn Us Around|first1=Karen G.|last1=Williams|first2=Andrea|last2=Queeley|date=13 October 2018|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9781442200135|via=Google Books}}
Personal life
She was married to actor and film director Ulli Lommel between 1988 and 2004.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HMpZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT260|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2017|first=Harris M. Lentz|last=III|date=30 April 2018|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476633183|via=Google Books}}
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Category:American music journalists
Category:American women journalists
Category:American women biographers
Category:Writers from Cleveland
Category:American magazine writers